TOPIC 6 CONTRIBUTIONS OF LINGUISTICS TO FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING. THE LANGUAGE LEARNING PROCESS: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING. CONTRIBUTIONS OF LINGUISTICS TO FL TEACHING Linguistics and FL Teaching Evolution of FL teaching according to linguistic influence. Teaching methods and approaches • Traditional Grammar. • Structuralism. FERDINAND DE SAUSURRE. • Audiolingualism. LEONARD BLOOMFIELD. • Generativism. NOAM CHOMSKY. • Cognitivism. JEAN PIAGET. • Constructivism. • CLIL methodology. DAVID MARS. THE LANGUAGE LEARNING PROCESS - Theories on first language acquisition. • IMITATION. SKINNER • INNATENESS • COGNITION • INPUT theory. KRASHEN - Theories of second language acquisition. • STEPHEN KRASHEN: “Five hypotheses theory” DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION